Porteur/Porter (Trigger’s broom)

This tourer is in part(s) my first proper bike.
The Campag 8sp triple I bought new in the early 90s, the Hope tandem hub I had built into a wheel by Helmut at Sonic cycles and he did some frame repairs - I was gilding a turd tbh. (he was a great frame builder - on Lambs Conduit St) don’t know why Campag or Hope, I think I blame Cycling Plus for both)
Originally it had a metallic green Holdsworth frame and a Blackburn rack, long reach Shimano dual pivots -which were a new thing back then, and I rode the crap out of it, commuting all over London with panniers full of tools and crazy loads- I rode it on the first Critical Mass I went on, which was only the second in London iirc and where I saw Buffalo Bill and the Moving Target fixies and thought - that looks cool.
I started riding fixed in late 90s when I lived in Philly and although I rode a version of this bike when I lived in Marin, it ended up retired to the loft while I rode a 50s Gillott track and now a fixed Pennine road frame around London.
About 7 years ago a friend persuaded me to join him on a tour from Knock to Cork down the Wild Atlantic Way. I took the parts off the old frame bought this lovely Evans for fuck all, splashed on the tubus racks.
It was an amazing tour. The bike was a beaut, as was Ireland.
It’s been on a few tours since but was being really underused until I needed to tow my daughter to nursery in her Croozer trailer (I did try it fixed over Telegraph Hill 🤦🏻‍♂️).

So anyway, it’s become a useful beast of burden and there’s a lot of love for it in a Trigger’s broom way.
I don’t need all the racks, or a triple and I have some parts I’ve been meaning to use, including a VO porteur rack and a dynamo hub wheel I built under close supervision from @Skülly.
A 1x porte(u)r fits the bill.
I’ve got some nice and fun bits to put on it and I thought I’d start a thing here to keep me motivated and show off a bit.

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very good. Nice back story.

Looking forward to seeing this rework. Love that FW Evans.

Last night I was fucking around with this 1940s/50s Luxor light.
I’m going to cram in the innards from a Busch and Müller Seculite Skully gave me, but I had to make a new mount and way to secure the lens.
It was brilliantly frustrating.
Think I’ve nailed it.

Edit: I realised this post isn’t clear, I made (fabricated is definitely too posh a word) the little ally bracket from some tube I had.
I flattened it, bent it, drilled and tapped it. It replaced the original Luxor incandescent bulb holder which the red dome bolted to, I re-sized the original bolt to M4 (it was close already and I had an M4 tap and die)
There is now enough room for the gubbins from the busted B&M rear light and the red dome is held in place.
Only took all fucking evening!

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VO rack.
I’m going to get a mate to braze in a stainless lamp support which will allow me to run all the wires hidden from hub to the front light (B&M IQ xs) and then to the rear.

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Nitto Porteur bars
Mafac inverse levers
Cinelli 1A
MicroSHIFT thumbie for Sram 1x12 Eagle

I’ve had these bars and levers for about 15 years - that’s how long I’ve been meaning to build a porteur (since I saw them in Jan Heine’s book) (edit - just looked it up, that book was published 18 years ago! Time I got this bike built)

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Lovely!

Think I’ve nailed it.

Which one of those photos actually contains the new innards?

If you've got the old brass terminals that the seculite used sticking out somewhere, bring it round to test cos my silver Yates has the plugs at rear for them sticking routed through the rack...

I haven’t put them in yet.
I thought I’d test the innards first and it got late last night …

My engineer mate said silicone on the back of the capacitor will be fine , but I need to work a way to mount the little B&M clear lens that fits over the LED (I have to rotate the PCB by 90° to fit it inside the red lens)

Oulala! Promising thread!

This has all the components for a great build thread!